Dinner: Founders & Investors Networking Event
Hosted by FoodNiche
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´◡`40 total spots
Business casual (location for this event has a dress code)
This private dinner experience brings together high-caliber founders, investors, strategic partners, and professionals shaping the future with food technology innovations, artificial intelligence, consumer innovation, and social impact initiatives.
The goal is simple: create the kind of environment where meaningful relationships, strategic conversations, investment opportunities, and long-term collaborations naturally emerge. This is because the best conversations during Tech Week rarely happen on stage.
They happen in the right room, with the right people, over dinner.
A Curated Room of Builders & Decision-Makers
This event is intentionally curated to ensure strong representation across:
- Venture-backed and emerging founders
- Angel investors and venture capital professionals
- Corporate innovation and strategy leaders
- Professionals interested in the future of innovation and impact
Whether you are actively deploying capital, building transformative technology, exploring partnerships, or looking to connect with exceptional people working on meaningful problems, this evening is designed for high-quality engagement.
Featured Dinner Conversation
Non-Dilutive Funding Strategies for High-Impact Companies
As dinner is served, attendees will join an expert-led discussion exploring one of the most underleveraged growth opportunities available to innovative companies today:
How mission-driven startups are accessing grants, research funding, government-backed programs, strategic partnerships, and other non-dilutive capital opportunities to accelerate growth without immediately sacrificing equity.
While the conversation will include examples from FoodTech, HealthTech, sustainability, and community impact innovation, the insights are highly relevant to founders and innovators across sectors.
Why Attend?
- Meet Exceptional People
- Connect with founders, investors, and industry leaders in a setting designed for genuine interaction—not transactional networking.
The evening begins with attendee introductions, allowing guests to briefly share what they are building, investing in, or exploring.
Expand Your Strategic Network
Meet people outside your immediate circle who may become future collaborators, investors, customers, advisors, or partners.
End NYC Tech Week the Right Way
A more relaxed, elevated environment to decompress, exchange ideas, and have conversations that are difficult to create in large conference settings.
Tentative Agenda
Time Experience
6:00 PM: Arrival, welcome reception & curated networking
6:15 PM: Founder, investor & professional introductions
6:35 PM: Dinner service & featured conversation: Non-dilutive capital strategies for impact-driven innovation
7:10 PM: Open discussion, audience insights & strategic conversations
7:25 PM: Closing remarks
The next generation of transformative companies will not emerge from isolated conversations.
They will emerge from connected ecosystems—where innovators, capital, expertise, and opportunity intersect.
This evening was created to bring those people into the same room.
Complete this form before May 30th, 2026 to receive your invite: https://forms.gle/mnHZkMkfjJAvPU3N8
Join us for dinner, networking, and insightful conversations. This event is part of NY Tech Week — a week of events hosted by venture capital firms, startups, and technology leaders designed to bring together the broader innovation ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com
***Please note that there is a registration fee to attend the event. Details will only be shared with registered attendees.
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